Birth + Postpartum Support
A birth doula will support you through your pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum period. Providing nutritional support, childbirth education, assistance in defining your birth preferences, advocacy for those preferences throughout your birth, hands-on massage, counter-pressure, and encouragement throughout labor, as well as nurture and support when baby arrives.
The role of the mother’s primary support person can never be replaced, but with a doula that person doesn’t have to worry about what to do or what comes next – he can be present as a parent. Women who have given birth with a doula by their side agree that she helped provide a gentle and more satisfying birth experience.
A Doula’s Role During Childbirth:
• Guide you through visualizations
• Help you understand the physiology of labor and birth
• Provide soothing touch and cupping massage
• Suggest ways to include your partner
• Advocates for the mother and helps facilitate
communication between mother and care provider
• Instill in you the confidence to gain information to give informed consent
• Prepare you for your birth experience through education, open discussion, and providing you with necessary resources
• Give you reassurance
• Suggest position changes
• Create a relaxing environment
• Suggest various pain coping techniques
• Use aromatherapy, cupping therapy and hydrotherapy
• Offer words of encouragement
Do not hesitate to reach out to discuss a fee that feels right for us both! I believe everyone should have the opportunity to have a Doula. Payment plans are available. Please call or e-mail to see what we can work out for you. We ask that the payment be received in full by 36 weeks gestation. It’s better to have the finances covered and in place so that your birthing experience and our relationship stays relaxed and as smooth as possible.
For current birth doula rates as fees may be different now than when we worked together in the past, please
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Birth Doula Consultation: FREE
Two Doula Meetings, Birth Support, and a Postpartum Follow up (with virtual prenatal and postpartum option): $500-$1,200
ALL VIRTUAL SUPPORT (available throughout the US & mostly anywhere): $500
BIRTH DOULA RATES
• In-person/virtual initial consultation
• Gift basket filled with goodies to prepare you for labor & access to informative
lending library
• Open text/email lines of communication leading up to birth for informational and
emotional support, including applicable resources as your pregnancy progresses.
This support continues after birth, too!
• 2-3 prenatal appointments or monthly virtual prenatal sessions to cover specific
milestones and plan for the birth and postpartum time.
• Constant support during pregnancy, labor & birth
• Third trimester (nearing your EDD) moving cupping to naturally help you relax in
preparation for labor (optional)
• IN-PERSON birth support on the big day!
• Lactation support via text/phone/video after birth until you're ready for an in-
person visit, or virtual sessions.
• 2 postpartum (in-person or virtual) appointments, which includes breastfeeding
support. (2-hr session)
Your Birth Doula package will include:
comfort her, nourish her,
nurture her
You deserve the right support as you bring your baby into the world, regardless of your birth setting.
A postpartum doula can help a healing mother and new family transition through the first days, weeks and months after baby's arrival. The transition from birth to postpartum can be an easy transition with a postpartum doula. Having a nurturing, supportive person alongside you as you care for your newborn and yourself, shows that mothers feel better, are more rested and healthier. They are also empowered about the parenting choices they have made for their family and are provided education as needed through the doula's visit. Our expert Mama Nourished doula can provide necessary referrals if a mother is struggling in a particular area as well. In addition, Mama Nourished can provide rejuvenating massage cupping therapy for the postpartum Mother in a location of her choice (most prefer in home service).
As your postpartum doula I strive to care for and nourish you and your family as you recover and adjust to life with a newborn. I hope to mother you as you discover confidence in your parenting skills and trust your instincts. When you are well cared for and are given the opportunity to rest and relax you are better able to care for and mother your own child. I am there for you during your "fourth trimester" to offer information and resources, help around the house, and to provide emotional support.
Having a postpartum doula is a great start to your mothering journey with baby at your side.
Postpartum Doula Services
Postpartum is a beautiful, vulnerable, powerful time. New mothers deserve to feel nurtured and nourished, but with our lack of a real “village” in modern times, often the postpartum experience is fraught with anxiety. I offer support to new and expecting mothers to help them plan for a more peaceful postpartum and empowered fourth trimester.
Role of a Postpartum Doula:
• Helps to build confidence in mothering and parenting by offering reassurance and encouragement
• Facilitates and fosters bonding between mother and newborn and newborn and other family members
• Assists with breastfeeding initiation, ongoing lactation support, support with bottle feeding, and help with breast pumps
• Provides evidence based information
• Supports emotional and physical healing from birth
• Teaches infant soothing and basic baby care
• Takes care of light housekeeping and household organization
• Aids in sibling care
• Provides meal preparation and assists with errands
• Provides community referrals for additional support or care
• Offers non-judgmental support of families' unique parenting approach
• Offers in home womb care services (womb steam & cupping) for the mother to rejuvenate her body
Give the gift of Postpartum Doula Services!
Postpartum doula services make wonderful baby shower gifts!
Postpartum Doula Consultation:FREE
Postpartum Doula Hourly Rate: $35 per hour
Extended hours and customized packages are also available. For more information, please
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POSTPARTUM DOULA RATES
As your postpartum doula I strive to care for and nourish you and your family as you recover and adjust to life with a newborn. I hope to mother you as you discover confidence in your parenting skills and trust your instincts. When you are well cared for and are given the opportunity to rest and relax you are better able to care for and mother your own child.
I am there for you during your "fourth trimester" to offer information and resources, help around the house, and to provide emotional support.
I take on a limited amount of monthly clients as a Postpartum Doula on a case-by-case basis for in-home support in South Jersey & the Greater Philadelphia area. If you are interested in a package of postpartum doula support hours, please get in touch with me to schedule a consultation and discuss your needs.
Who uses Postpartum Doula's?
• Anyone who has just given birth or is caring for a newborn baby (ex:adoption)
• First time parents
• Mothers and families with multiples, premature newborns, and cesarean births
• Families with other young children
• Mothers whose partners must return to work shortly after birth or who are traveling regularly
• Mothers who plan to be home right after birth because of a short hospital stay or home birth
• Facilitates maternal responsiveness and competence
• Parents gain a better understanding of newborns needs and behavior
• Greater breastfeeding success
• Improves attachment and bonding between mother and baby and the whole family unit
• Reduces amount of postpartum depression and it can be easier for mom to cope with if it has arisen
• Improves mother's confidence, reduces exhaustion, frustration, and anxiety
• Partners are able to resume work sooner and with less anxiety
Advantages of using a Postpartum Doula:
Birth Doula Services
